 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1894 - 1596 pages
...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not (bin I, the emergency has un-iTi to call for the surrender of this army, but as the restoration of peace should I* the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot,... | |
 | James Longstreet - United States - 1895 - 808 pages
...Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of...end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as far as your proposal may affect the Confederate... | |
 | William Henry Powell - United States - 1895 - 1078 pages
...Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus - Indians of North America - 1896 - 616 pages
...surrender of the Army of N. Va., but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of...therefore meet you with a view to surrender the Army of N. Va., but as far as your proposal may affect the CS forces under my command and tend to the restoration... | |
 | Capers Dickson - United States - 1896 - 292 pages
...Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank,! do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all. I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | William Conant Church - Generals - 1897 - 588 pages
...Army of Northern Virginia, but asked the terms of your proposition. To he frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Generals - 1897 - 450 pages
...be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not therefore meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but so far as your proposition may affect the Confederate States forces under my command and tend to the... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Generals - 1897 - 452 pages
...of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not therefore meet you with a view... | |
 | Hamlin Garland - 1898 - 632 pages
...not to be caught napping by Lee's second letter, in which he said, " To be frank, I don't think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army," but added that he would be pleased to meet General Grant at 10 AM Grant replied : I have no authority to... | |
 | Hamlin Garland - 1898 - 610 pages
...not to be caught napping by Lee's second letter, in which he said, " To be frank, I don't think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army," but added that he would be pleased to meet General Grant at 10 AM Grant replied : I have no authority to... | |
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GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to... 
